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Global Water Challenge and AMREF Health Africa Launch Women and Girl-focused Impact Partnership
As the world celebrated Global Handwashing Day, Global Water Challenge (GWC), with Amref Health Africa, launched a high impact community water partnership with support from The Starbucks Foundation to empower women and girls in coffee- and tea-growing communities of Kenya and Tanzania.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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Viewpoint: How Africa Can Ride the Growing Wave of Climate Tech Investment
Investing in climate tech will be critical to countering these risks and to building adaptive and resilient economies.
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- Environment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Tetra Tech Wins $25 Million Usaid Water and Sanitation Contract
Through the USAID Tanzania Water and Sanitation Activity, Tetra Tech’s team of industry leading water and sanitation experts will provide engineering and technical advisory services to strengthen Tanzania’s capacity to manage water resources.
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- Technology, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bengaluru-based Investment Platform Groww Raises $251 Million in Series E Round
Groww is an investment platform for retail investors, which allows people to invest in direct mutual funds, stocks, ETFs and IPOs.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing, scale
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Analysis: From Supply to Demand: Changing the Approach in Africa’s Food Economy
Boston Consulting Group insists that the model that has always been relied upon in Africa, where the supply side of the food economy has been the focus by stakeholders (including policymakers), could be changed for a long-term solution.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- food security
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Africa Tries to End Vaccine Inequity by Replicating Its Own
In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Networks Partner to Catalyze Impact Investing in Africa
Leading investor networks join forces to connect investors and increase financing of African enterprises that create positive social and environmental impact.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pismo Raises $108 Million Series B Led by Softbank, Amazon and Accel To Enable Cloud-native Financial Services Globally
Pismo, the cloud-native core banking and payments platform, announced the signing of a $108 million Series B fundraising round.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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- data, fintech, infrastructure, innovation
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